has been established. Pacific), a regional term, refers to the abbreviation of Asia and the Pacific coast.

in a broad sense, it includes the whole Pacific Rim region. Countries and regions on the east and west sides of the Pacific Ocean, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, Peru, Chile and other countries in North and South America, the Russian Far East, Japan, South Korea, China, ASEAN countries and Australia, New Zealand and other countries and regions in Oceania.

in a narrow sense, it refers to the western Pacific, which mainly includes China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) in East Asia, Japan, the Russian Far East and ASEAN countries in Southeast Asia, and sometimes extends to Australia and New Zealand in Oceania.

former us defense secretary Weinberg and some Japanese scholars hold the first view, while most Chinese scholars hold a narrow view.